Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

- Dickens, Charles

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.